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by bboreham 8y ago
> Red Hat shareholders just sold out. Might be going out on a limb here, but maybe that’s why they bought the stock, so they could sell out at a profit?
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by bboreham 8y ago
That’s the point. It doesn’t happen very often because people took care not to sign the document that would put them in prison. Your point may be that people should go to prison for presiding over bad things that weren’t actually against th
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by bboreham 8y ago
I think you’re missing the context that Ian worked for a large bank, which is a lot more like a software company than you might think.
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by bboreham 8y ago
That doesn’t appear to be true. The thing doing scheduling has to cooperate with the thing doing stack management, so that context can be switched. What are those two things, in your proposition that we can simply use Linux threads?
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by bboreham 8y ago
A deeper problem is with Linux threads you can’t grow the stack beyond whatever limit you choose, so you either have to write all code with very limited stack usage or set a big enough stack for the worst case. Which will be too big for mil
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by bboreham 8y ago
What definition of “correctness” are you using here? Bugs are found and fixed in Linux all the time.
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by bboreham 8y ago
I salute the enormous amount of work you’ve done. But without a consistent store, it seems to me there are a myriad of race conditions the system can fall into. Maybe if you accept a bit of oscillation under stress, and damp that oscillatio
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by bboreham 8y ago
There’s a decent description here: https://aviation.stackexchange.com/questions/35764/are-helic...
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by bboreham 8y ago
> Helicopters are aerodynamically stable That’s not my experience as a helicopter pilot. I believe the textbooks say they are “statically stable and dynamically unstable”, but the bottom line is you surely do need a control loop.
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by bboreham 8y ago
“Stop-loss” orders don’t work perfectly. If the entire market has gone South, you can lose a lot more than your stop-loss says.
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by bboreham 8y ago
I think it refers to advertising that your loan is fabulous and easy to get, to people who would be much better off not taking your loan, and who are not sophisticated enough to realise this.
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by bboreham 8y ago
$70 per month and up, based on GB/day transmitted. https://www.honeycomb.io/pricing/
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by bboreham 8y ago
> they can’t issue loans because they are not a bank I have to think there is some misunderstanding here - lots of nonbank companies issue loans. Ford Motor Credit is not a bank. The thing that banks are uniquely allowed to do is to take
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by bboreham 8y ago
Introduce yourself. Way too many times I’m sitting in the audience, the person at the front is exchanging smiles with the programme committee who all know each other, but I have no idea who they are and what drives their viewpoint.
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by bboreham 8y ago
I bought one and spent three days trying to fight the software. Seems Sonos are aiming for a cut of the streaming revenue: if you already own the music you’re a distraction. Once I discovered you can drive the Sonos as a passive target from
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by bboreham 8y ago
> 'strcpy' should usually be replaced by 'strncpy' Sorry to butt in, but this is a bit of a trigger for me: I’ve had to fix a number of programs infected with this idea. The main problems with strncpy are: When the so
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by bboreham 8y ago
In what sense is this a “backdoor”? Seems to me the code is coming through the front door, which the victims left open. DockerHub is just the delivery mechanism.
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by bboreham 8y ago
For interest: a CLI tool to simplify the initial process of cluster creation https://eksctl.io
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by bboreham 8y ago
No.
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by bboreham 8y ago
According to this page, 250 feet: https://www.gov.uk/low-flying-in-your-area ”Low flying isn’t usually allowed in areas around airports, or towns and cities with populations of more than 10,000.”
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by bboreham 8y ago
Weaveworks’ focus has been on visualisation and observability for the last three years, and now deployment (GitOps). BTW Weave Net has been “docker pull”ed 30 million times. _Somebody_ must be using it... (I work for Weaveworks)
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by bboreham 8y ago
I’m sure it is immensely irritating to Google that they aren’t even second to AWS, but I’m pretty sure it was not Microsoft they were aiming at with Kubernetes. To me, it’s a re-run of the X Window System playbook, where Digital managed to
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by bboreham 8y ago
Evidence: EKS.
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by bboreham 8y ago
Apparently I also miss your point, because I cannot parse it. Did you mean “incumbent”?
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by bboreham 8y ago
I did not intend to state a wish that any of Google, ECS, AWS or EKS would “win”. I do believe EKS is a good choice for many people. As is GKS, and many similar offerings. BTW I work for a company selling Kubernetes tools and support.
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by bboreham 8y ago
Google’s competitor here is AWS. AWS’ comparable product is ECS. ECS also lost. Roll on EKS.
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by bboreham 8y ago
Yes it is Open Source: the whole project is on GitHub, Apache 2 licenced. Posting to Slack (and OpsGenie, PagerDuty, etc) is a feature of the Prometheus AlertManager, which Cortex builds upon, no subscription required. The commercial Weave
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by bboreham 8y ago
Great project - just wanted to mention Cortex which is a different take on long-term large-scale Prometheus. https://github.com/weaveworks/cortex Best to read the design document [1] to learn more about the different c
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by bboreham 8y ago
Apple already have a credit card with Barclays (as mentioned in TFA). This is just them moving from one partner to another.
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by bboreham 8y ago
Apples to oranges comparison. TFA is about managed service. If you could show that RDS runs faster or slower than running PostgreSQL yourself, that would be interesting.

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